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Joe Root to stay at Yorkshire for two more years

Root has signed a new contract with his native county of Yorkshire that will keep him at Headingley for at least another two years, the club announced on Monday. (Getty Images)

England batsman Joe Root has signed a new contract with his native county of Yorkshire that will keep him at Headingley for at least another two years, the club announced Monday.

The 23-year-old is currently sidelined with a broken thumb and has missed the start of the new county season but Yorkshire hope to have him back in action later this month.

His new deal will see him stay at Yorkshire until at least December 2016.

Since making his England debut in 2012, Root has played 15 Tests, scoring 955 runs including a best of 180 as opener against Australia at Lord's last year.

But uncertainty over Root's best position saw him drop down the order for England's 5-0 Ashes thrashing in Australia. Root, in common with most of England's batsmen, struggled and was left out of the final match of that series in Sydney.

However, he ended his international 'winter' with a one-day hundred against the West Indies last month despite suffering a broken right thumb early in that innings.